“I was very sorry to learn of the premature death of Stephen Ellis”, Tony Leon says. “He was a hugely important voice on South Africa’s much contested history and current events.

“I rate his work External Mission as simultaneously one of the most important lenses through which the current ANC government needs to be viewed, and also as one of the most under reviewed and less appreciated books on contemporary South Africa. It stands now as an intellectual monument to the author’s thoughtful scholarship and provocative analysis.”